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walkingman

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7. Partisan Gerrymandering is illegal but because SCOTUS has changed their views

Reply to lees1975 (Reply #6)

Mon Jul 21, 2025, 05:42 PM

Jul 21

on the "Voting Rights Act" in recent years, that is questionable...at best.

As someone that has lived in Texas since 1974, I don't think the Democratic Party has a prayer here. We have too many people that are not interested in even voting and those that do are consumed by religious issues like abortion and most have problems with gender identity.

Because it is such a large state with so many rural areas, it gives the majority party (GOP) to draw districts in weird shapes that picks off portions of the cities (predominately Democrats) into multiple districts and diminishes the power of the majority Democratic population of most of the cities.

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